Just over a year ago, Hip-Hop lost one of its rising young stars in XXXTentacion to murder and fans are still reeling over the unfortunate incident.Lil Pump, himself a star in the making and hailing from the late rapper’s home state, made a statement that compared XXXTentacion to the late 2pac.

In a video clip, the 18-year-old “Gucci Gang” star said that XXXTentacion was the “2Pac of our generation” along with other utterances supporting the fallen rapper.

Via Twitter, folks have been chiming in with the slander, but by no mean are we piling upon the dead, as we collectively thought that XXXTentacion’s death was a dark day for the culture and a jarring reminder for his fans that the world can be cruel at times.

With that aside., we’re here to document the culture and you can see what we’ve seen via Twitter below.

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@lilpump I know I’m a nobody but don’t compare anther great rapper to another in no way is he the 2Pac of our generation! He’s XXXtentacion of our generation. He is/was great by himself! https://t.co/PtFwZXyKH9

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LoL 2pac died back in the 90s and still got interviews that will be relevant past all of our generations. Lil Pump gonna be 50 years old and they still gonna be playing “Juice” & teaching 2pac courses in college. #PacIsForever

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please do NOT use 2Pac and XXXTentshition in the same sentence! 2Pac's songs were actually good, X's songs are corny, generic lyrics a 12 year old can come up with. but let's face it, Lil Pump has about as many brain cells as a depressed person has serotonin.. pic.twitter.com/N0ScYrBJOW

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I rate lil pumps music but I don’t believe this dosser has a single brain cell, X is X 2PAC is 2PAC stop comparing rappers to 2 PAC, X is a mumble rap legend, mumble rap ain’t doing shit part from make taking drug look cool but 2 Pac a hiphop god who gave hope through his art #RThttps://t.co/jwlVI0ZgAr